CV
Education
- PhD, UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh, 2023-
- MSc Developmental Linguistics (With Distinction), University of Edinburgh, 2022
- MA (Hons) Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (2.1), University of Edinburgh, 2006
Research interests
- Feminist and anarchist HCI
- Prosody and communicative goals
- ‘Atypical’ and disfluent speech
- Users’ experiences of synthesised speech and voice interfaces
- Speech technology in language acquisition and development
- Technology in society: ethics, ideologies, and (in)justice
Publications
Alice Ross, Nina Markl, Catherine Lai, and Lauren Hall-Lew, (accepted). The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech. CHI EA 26: Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Barcelona.
Alice Ross, Cliodhna Hughes, Eddie L. Ungless and Catherine Lai. (2025). 'Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men.' Interspeech 2025, 674-678.
Ariadna Sanchez, Alice Ross, and Nina Markl (2024). 'Beyond the binary: Limitations and possibilities of gender-related speech technology research.' IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop 2024, 526-532.
Alice Ross, Martin Corley and Catherine Lai. (2024). 'Is there an uncanny valley for speech? Investigating listeners' evaluations of realistic TTS voices.' Speech Prosody 2024, 1115-1119.
Talks and presentations
March 04, 2026
WIP project presentation at The Centre for Technomoral Futures, Edinburgh
February 05, 2026
Lecture at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
January 12, 2026
Discussion at Newcastle Reform Synagogue, Newcastle upon Tyne
November 20, 2025
Panel discussion at AI Ethics and Society, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
October 13, 2025
Talk at Language Variation and Change Research Group, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
September 17, 2025
Talk at Division of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH) Seminar at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
August 21, 2025
Conference proceedings talk at Lavender Languages and Linguistics 31, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
August 18, 2025
Conference proceedings talk at Interspeech Special Session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology, Rotterdam
August 06, 2025
Talk at Center for Humans and Machines lab, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
June 16, 2025
Conference proceedings talk at UK and Ireland Speech, University of York, York
May 26, 2025
Talk at Centre for Speech Technology Research Talks, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
April 14, 2025
Talk at Gender and Social Cognition reading group, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
February 20, 2025
Poster at ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin, Berlin
Teaching
Posters
Prizes, grants and awards
2023 - 2027, PhD Funding, UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh
Full scholarship covering tuition fees, programme costs and stipend
2022, Best Poster, Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh
Prize for best poster (£50)
Other professional activities
Copenhagen Winter School in Sociolinguistics, March 2026
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The 4th Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Literature in Berlin, August 2024
Maison de la culture yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem, hosted by the Osteuropa-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin
The 4th LITHME Training school, May 2024
Language in the Human-Machine Era, hosted by the University of Hradec Králové, funded by European Cooperation in Science and Technology
The 2nd Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Literature in Berlin, August 2022
Maison de la culture yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem, hosted by the Osteuropa-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin
Other publications
2024, Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice, anthology, ed. C. Milstein
M. Holleb and A. Ross, Pink Peacock: Lavishly Accessible
2022, Radical Jewish Calendar 5783, artwork
A. Ross, Always Carry A Book
2020, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart, anthology, ed. C. Milstein
A. Ross, And You Shall Love